And he reigned forty-one years in Yerushalayim, and his grandmother's name was Ma'akah the granddaughter of Abishalom.

And Asa did what was right in the eyes of YHWH, as his father Dawid had done,

and put away the cult prostitutes from the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

And he also removed Ma'akah his grandmother from being sovereigness mother, because she had made an abominable image for Asherah. And Asa cut down her abominable image and burned it by the wadi Qidron.

And there was fighting between Asa and Ba'asha sovereign of Yisra'el all their days.

And Ba'asha sovereign of Yisra'el came up against Yehudah, and built Ramah, to keep anyone from going out or coming in to Asa sovereign of Yehudah.

And Asa took all the silver and gold that was left in the treasuries of the House of YHWH and the treasuries of the sovereign's house, and gave them into the hand of his servants. And Sovereign Asa sent them to Ben-Hadad son of Tabrimmon, son of Hezyon, sovereign of Aram, who dwelt in Damascus, saying,

'Let there be a covenant between you and me, as there was between my father and your father. Look, I have sent you a present of silver and gold. Come, break your covenant with Ba'asha sovereign of Yisra'el, so that he withdraws from me.'

And Ben-Hadad listened to Sovereign Asa, and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Yisra'el, and smote Iyon, and Dan, and Abel Beyth Ma'akah, and all Kinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.

And it came to be, when Ba'asha heard it, that he stopped building Ramah, and remained in Tirtsah.

Then Sovereign Asa summoned all Yehudah - none was exempted - and they took away the stones and timber of Ramah, which Ba'asha had used for building. And with them Sovereign Asa built Geba of Binyamin, and Mitspah.

And the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the book of the annals of the sovereigns of Yehudah? But in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.

And Nadab son of Yarob`am became sovereign over Yisra`el in the second year of Asa sovereign of Yehudah, and he reigned over Yisra`el two years.

And he did evil in the eyes of YHWH, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin by which he had made Yisra'el sin.

Then Ba'asha son of Ahiyah, of the house of Yissaskar, conspired against him. And Ba'asha smote him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines, for Nadab and all Yisra'el had laid siege to Gibbethon.

And Ba'asha killed him in the third year of Asa sovereign of Yehudah, and reigned in his place.

And it came to be, when he became sovereign, that he smote all the house of Yarob'am. He did not leave to Yarob'am anyone breathing, until he had destroyed him, according to the word of YHWH which He had spoken by His servant Ahiyah the Shilonite,